C.F. Marciano·Aug 10The Chicago Pipeline: How the Outfit Quietly Took Over VegasLas Vegas tells a polished story about itself. Neon, glamour, reinvention. A place where fortunes rise and fall under chandeliers and…A response icon1
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Jun 26The Del Charro File — J. Edgar Hoover’s Nearly Twenty Summers as Clint Murchison’s GuestJ. Edgar Hoover spent nearly twenty summers as a Texas oilman’s guest at a hotel that also drew gamblers and racketeers. He never paid.
InMade MenbyJ Gray·Jun 19What Choosing Giancana Tells You — How the CIA Built the Map the FBI Said Didn’t ExistTo choose Sam Giancana in 1960, the CIA needed a comprehensive intelligence map of the American national crime syndicate — who ran what…
C.F. Marciano·Feb 25Sam Giancana, Phyllis McGuire, and the Cost of Craving the SpotlightPower, in the underworld, is supposed to be quiet.
C.F. Marciano·Jan 3The CIA-Mafia Plot to Kill Castro: Spies, Hitmen, and the Dark Marriage of Cold War AmericaIt sounds like a Hollywood thriller: the CIA hires the Mafia to kill a foreign leader. Except it happened. The mission was real. The plot…
